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WGBH Radio hosts Callie Crossley and Bob Seay present a new documentary that will transport listeners back to one of the most important days in the American Civil Rights movement, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Wednesday at 2pm on 89.7 WGBH

OPEN VAULT

By Elizabeth Dean
In a time when both women's and gay rights were profusely debated, Elaine Noble took her seat in the Massachusetts State House. She was the first openly gay candidate in the country to win a state office—but as you'll see, her focus was on helping her constituents.

OPEN VAULT

Producers of Rock & Roll, the acclaimed 10-part WGBH and BBC co-production from 1995, sought out the founders of Chess Records, the men behind the “hallowed ground” for an episode on the electric blues and the 1960s British Invasion.

OPEN STUDIO

By Elizabeth Deane
At first glance, the 1962 black-and-white video doesn’t appear to capture anything more than a straightforward interview. But watch closely, and read on to discover how these two had a rocky history

FROM THE VAULT

If you were old enough to grasp what was happening on November 22, 1963, you will always remember that day. This month we’re listening to two clips from WGBH Radio of that Friday afternoon in November, zooming in, Google Earth-style, on a stately building on Massachusetts Avenue in Boston. No one in Symphony Hall that day will ever forget how they heard the news, and the music that followed.

WGBH Open Vault

Hear former ABC reporter John Scali describe his involvement with a high-ranking Soviet Embassy contact at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Later discoveries revealed Scali's story to be misleading. How it unraveled gives us a glimpse inside the fog of war.

FROM THE VAULT

By Elizabeth Deane
The Beach Boys may have surpassed Quincy-born Dick Dale in popularity, but he owns the title "King of the Surf Guitar." Learn why in this WGBH Archives video interview from the award-winning series "Rock & Roll."

FENWAY FRIDAYS

By Cristina Quinn & Elizabeth Deane
On Kid Nation Day, we go back to 1999 when the cast of the popular WGBH kids program got the chance to perform the national anthem on the field. Watch their performance and find out where some of them are now.

By Ted Canova
When word of Mike Wallace's death reached WGBH News' Ted Canova, it took him back to the days when you had to get up to change the channel, to the days when TV news was still being defined.

By WGBH News
Kevin White's tenure as mayor was a time of tumultuous race relations in Boston. These exclusive WGBH videos show key moments when White, who died Friday, tried to negotiate those tensions.

WGBH 89.7 News

By Bob Seay
Nobel Peace Prize-winning Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai died last month but the legacy of her mission is still alive. Maathai spoke about her life's work with WGBH back in 1990 for a series called Race to Save the Planet. Former Nova producer Linda Harrar offered this personal remembrance.

By Bob Seay
We have a special remembrance of Apple's Steve Jobs in a superb WGBH interview from 1990. It's from a series called The Machine That Changed The World. In it, Jobs talks about how that revolutionary device, the Macintosh personal computer, came to be and the particular gifts of the people who made it a reality.